Improvement in flaxseed-sieves



H. PENNER. l FLAx-SAEED SIEVE.

No.175,492. PatemeaY-uarch 28,1876.

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I' V I A r I l I I WITNESSES UV VENTOR W! #bag/ y UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGH PENNER, OF DE SOTO, KANSAS.

.IMPROVEMENT IN FLAXSEED-SIEVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 175,492, dated March 28, 1876; application filed September 18, 1875.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGH PENNER, ot' De Soto, in the county ot'Johnsou and in the State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sieves for Fanning-Mills 5 and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof', reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters ot' reference marked thereon, making a part of this specitication.

The nature ot' my invention consists in the peculiar construction ot' the surface and the meshes ot' a sieve to be used for separating 11a-x from other seeds, either in a thresheror ordinary fanningmill.

In the accompanying drawings, making part of this specilication, Figure l represents a plan view; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 a cross-section.

In the gures, A represents a sieve for the separating part of a threshing-machine or for an ordinary tanning-mill, being made in size to suit the machine with which it is to be used. B B represent' the meshes of this sieve,

being slots made in a metal sheet. The slots are made lengthwise ot the sieve and about half an inch apart. and a very little over the length of a fiaxseed in length, and in width a very little over the width of a seed. The

spaces U between the slots are madeoval, and the slots, consequently, are in the bottoms of the recesses, which are triangular in form, as shown in the drawing. These slots, it will be seen, are made with particular reference to the size ot'tlaxseed, said seed being very thin in comparison to their width and length. The

axseed with this sieve, of course, passes to the recesses like other seed, but as the slots are peculiarly constructed with reference to the shape of said seed they pass through, while those seed of a different kind and construction pass over and drop off of the sieve.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by W. H. M. FrsHBAoK, M. T. GRAHAM. 

